The high level committee constituted for Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has submitted the final report of the Code to Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav thanked all the members including the Chairman for submitting the report within the time limit. On this occasion, committee member Prof. Gopal Sharma, Budhpal Singh, Shobha Paithankar and committee member secretary Ajay Katesaria were present. Regarding the UCC report, CM Dr. Yadav has said that Congress should clarify its stand on this.
Point to be noted is that Chief Minister Dr. Yadav In the report submitted to , the committee’s report is compiled in 3 sections. The first section contains the report of the committee’s recommendations and in this the committee has analyzed various international, national and state laws and practices and reported its recommendations. There are 10 chapters in this section. The second section of the report is in the form of a draft of the bill. The draft of the bill proposed by the committee has been prepared in view of the laws and rules prevalent in Madhya Pradesh.
Public consultation report in the third section
The proposed bill has 4 parts, 404 sections and 7 schedules. The third section contains the public consultation report, which contains details of the extensive public consultation conducted by the committee at the district level, state level and through the website. The committee had received more than 9.58 lakh consultations. Their question wise, gender wise and community wise analysis is included in this section. The committee has recommended keeping Scheduled Tribes out of the Uniform Civil Code.
Report transferred to Law Department
It is noteworthy that the high level committee constituted by the state government was entrusted with the responsibility of studying the prevailing arrangements related to various personal and family matters, such as marriage, divorce, maintenance, succession, adoption and live-in relationships. According to the above, the committee has done the work of preparing the draft as per the social, cultural and economic conditions of Madhya Pradesh. The committee has worked in the direction of fundamental principles, ensuring gender equality, leaving various ritualistic practices unaffected, respecting prevalent customs and traditions and constitutional provisions and public policy.
Chief Minister Dr. Yadav also thanked the chairperson of the committee, retired judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, committee member and senior advisor Shatrughan Singh and member Anoop Nair, who could not be present due to personal reasons. The report received by the committee has been transferred to the Law Department of the State Government. After refinement of the bill and the process of the Senior Secretary Committee, the bill is likely to be tabled in the Assembly in the monsoon session itself after the approval of the Council of Ministers.
Opposition should put forward their point – CM Yadav
Chief Minister Dr. Yadav said that the UCC report has been handed over to me by the committee. Now Congress should also clarify its stand on this subject. Be it the issue of UCC or Bhojshala, Congress looks at every issue only from the perspective of Hindu-Muslim and vote bank politics. He said that the positive thing is that citizens of all religions have expressed their views openly and clearly on UCC, but Congress has not yet put forward its clear stand.
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